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A recent insert on consumer affairs show Carte Blanche highlighted the seriousness of social media lawsuits that followed as a result of comments made by individuals on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. The show featured a social media Law specialist, Emma Sadleir (an Associate at Webber Wentzel) who ...

The Pope joining Twitter was pretty big news, although it did have an air of inevitability about it. Getting one of the world's preeminent religious leaders onto the social network seemed to make sense, but it turns out Twitter itself may have put pressure on the Vatican to get his ...

Your Twitter account might have been hacked today, although it probably wasn't. Confused? So were a number of Twitter users around the world after they received an email telling them to change their passwords.The social network says it sent out a legitimate email to some users whose accounts had ...

Hurricane Sandy, and Instagram photos tagged with #sandy, "was probably the single largest event taking place that was captured on Instagram," said CEO Kevin Systrom. Speaking at the GigaOm Roadmap conference, Systrom also said that this may be "the single largest thing captured through digital images ever. Over 800,000 images ...

With all the time we spend on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (the list goes on) our lives have become intertwined in more ways than we think. If we take recent court cases seriously, then soon our own social media connections could be "owned" in the future. It's also becoming increasingly obvious ...

The US Presidential debate on Wednesday set a new record for the most tweeted political event in history, according to Twitter’s government and political team.The social network also states that just after the debate began, its service was set abuzz with more than two-million tweets in a very short ...

Oh look. Twitter's in hot water in India. Again. This time the Indian government is going after the social network because it has failed to comply with the country's efforts to clean up social media.According to the Times of India attention returned to Twitter shortly after the country accused ...

Here we go again. Another storm has been brewing on the South African social media scene. This time, big digital agencies are accused of buying Twitter followers.The thing is, the issue of fake followers is actually been around since 2009 when the Telegraph wrote a piece exposing Maz Nadjm, ...

So far in our series on the South African Twittersphere, we explored what lessons we can learn from conversations happening around two key political figures, opposition leader Helen Zille and president Jacob Zuma. We then mapped a large portion of the South African Twitter network in order to identify who ...

In the last post of this series we looked at what the most popular hashtags in conversations around two of the most powerful tweeters in South Africa, Helen Zille and Jacob Zuma, revealed about the way politicians use Twitter.Our next piece of research went one step further by mapping and ...